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| Picture No | 10217694 |
| Date | 1890 |
| Description | Dr. Thomas Parke sucking poison from Lt. Stairs, Abousheeba, |
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Dr. Thomas Parke sucking poison from the side of Lieutenant Stairs during Sir Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887-1888. Lieutenant Stairs had been hit by a poisoned arrow which would probably have killed him, had it not been for Parke's prompt action to remove the toxin. Emin Pasha (1840-1892), the German doctor, explorer, linguist and Governor of the Egyptian Equatorial Province had retreated to Wadelai, near Lake Albert, with 10,000 followers during the Mahdi Rising of the mid-1880's. Cut off from all communication Emin Pasha was considered lost, so the British government sent out a rescue party led by H.M. Stanley (1841-1904).
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| Source | The Graphic. 1890. dps pages 18-19. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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